Chapter 8February 11, 1972

You see how it is.

(silence)

I think... I have the feeling that if all goes well, in a few years I’ll be able to do many things... but not yet. If all goes well, at one hundred – I feel at one hundred years I Will be strong. The body itself has a conviction that if it lasts till one hundred, then at one hundred it will have a new strength and a new life. But... these are just the difficult years.

The years of transition... (Mother puts her head in her hands).

(brief silence)

It’s interesting. When I am quiet, I hear a kind of great chant – almost a collective chant, I could say: OM Namo Bhagavateh.... As if all of Nature went (rising gesture): OM Namo Bhagavateh...

(Mother goes into contemplation)

(A note from Mother)

Human consciousness is so corrupt that people prefer the misery and ignorance of the ego to the luminous joy that comes from sincere surrender to the Divine. Their blindness is so great that they refuse even to attempt the experience and prefer to be subjected to the misery of their ego rather than make the necessary effort to free themselves from it.

Their blindness is so total that they would not hesitate to make the Divine a slave to their ego, if such a thing were possible, just to avoid giving themselves to the Divine.